To give proper credit, that's actually a port of the Model I/III Lisp to the CoCo, as printed in Hot Coco magazine. I'm still idle in a few bits of the CoCo sc

To give proper credit, that's actually a port of the Model I/III Lisp to the CoCo, as printed in Hot Coco magazine. I'm still idle in a few bits of the CoCo scene and someone dug it up a while back so I snapped the code just because I was impressed that 1) it was pulled off in BASIC, and 2) in so little space. Probably indeed not the best introduction to Lisp. I do wish I had had some intro to Lisp, or perhaps more ideally Scheme, back when I was that young though. I honestly believe I'd've stuck with programming if I'd discovered Lisp & FP when I was just starting to look beyond BASIC/QBasic. Instead all I saw was everyone telling me I should learn Assembly or C if I wanted to be a "real programmer", while Python and JavaScript were sneered at as mere "scripting languages," save for those like Perl that were intelligible only to other Perl hackers. Once Java came along and I took two glances at that, I just gave up on programming for another decade, resigned to the idea that coding for a living was nothing more than a life of tedium and irritation. I'm still not always sure I was wrong.